1 Staff morale in the English mental health workforce Sonia Johnson 1 , David P.J. Osborn 1 , Ricardo Araya 2 , Elizabeth Wearn 1 , Moli Paul 3 , Mai Stafford 4 , Nigel Wellman 5 , Fiona Nolan 6 , Helen Killaspy 1 , Brynmor Lloyd-Evans 1 , Emma Anderson 2 and Stephen J. Wood 7 For submission to the British Journal of Psychiatry Corresponding author: Professor Sonia Johnson, Dept of Mental Health Sciences, UniversityCollegeLondon, Charles Bell House, 67-73 Riding House St, LondonW1W 7EY Email: s.johnson@ucl.ac.uk Affiliations: 1. Research Dept of Mental Health Sciences, UniversityCollegeLondon 2. School of Social and Community Medicine, Academic Unit of Psychiatry, University of Bristol 3. The University of Warwick, WarwickMedicalSchool 4. MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing 5. ThamesValleyUniversity 6. Sub-Department of Clinical Health Psychology, UniversityCollegeLondon 7. School of Management, University of Leicester